technologyreseller.co.uk 07 NEWS The art of energy efficiency In November, PPDS, provider of Philips professional displays and dedicated AV software solutions, is hosting the world’s first ‘zero emission’ digital art exhibition in Milan, when 20 finalists for the inaugural MUSE Digital Art Award will be invited to display their art on zero-power Philips Tableaux displays. The Award, open to professional artists and art students from around the world, comes with a first prize of €3,000 in cash and a Philips Tableaux display. Two runners-up will each receive a Tableaux display. Entries on the theme of ‘The Energy for Tomorrow’ must be created for presentation on a 25in (16 x 9) display and submitted by 20 October 2023. www.ppds.com/muse Outages minimised by observability The typical global enterprise suffers nine brownouts or outages every month, each of which lasts for an average of 12 hours, costing affected organisations £10.9 million annually. But not if they have invested in observability suggests a new report from SolarWinds. 2023 IT Trends: Lessons From Observability Leaders claims that observability leaders resolve brownouts nine hours quicker than the average, reducing the annual costs of outages to £2.4m. In addition, it states that observability leaders are 388% more likely to have extremely positive employee experiences, innovate 250% times quicker, and operate 214% more efficiently. www.it-trends.solarwinds.com ······ ······ Office not home, please Seven out of 10 UK workers say they get as much done in four days as they do in five, reports global freelance platform Fiverr. In its survey of 2,000 UK workers, more than two times as many respondents selected offices/co-working spaces as their optimal work environment as did working from home (46% vs. 21%). Almost half (46%) of respondents prefer to have no more than one meeting per day. www.fiverr.com ······ Big opportunities in AV refreshes A new report from AV solutions and services provider Kinly highlights opportunities for resellers to rectify poor technology investments made by organisations at the start of the pandemic. In a survey for its Trusted Connections report, 41% of AV specialists in banking, finance, healthcare, energy and the public sector say their organisations ‘rushed’ AV installations due to Covid-19; 39% say there was not enough time to ‘get the technology right’; and 32% worry that the rush to implement remote working has undermined their security. As a result, 23% of AV professionals are now rolling back the hybrid working technologies they installed at the time and selecting more appropriate solutions. Key areas of investment are network infrastructure (cited as a priority by 43% of AV professionals), virtual townhall tech (41%) and office displays (40%). www.kinly.com ······ Built like a tank Panasonic Mobile Solutions Business Division has launched a TOUGHBOOK 40 Military variant in collaboration with roda computer GmbH. Specially developed for use in military vehicles, the 14-inch rugged notebook is dust and water resistant to IP66 and tested to military standard MIL-STD810H. It can withstand a drop from a height of 180wcm and is resistant to shocks, vibrations and operating temperatures between -29°C and 63°C. The battery life can be extended to 36 hours, thanks to the hot-swappable function, and if necessary, all radio and display functions can be immediately switched off when in ‘Concealed Mode’. The TOUGHBOOK 40 Military is configured to run on Windows 11 Pro and comes with four expansion slots and military-grade interfaces, with the option of additional interfaces and an Eclypt Core Encrypted Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) from Viasat, which is certified for securing Top Secret information and for use by NATO and other European countries. https://eu.connect.panasonic.com Working together. Everywhere Trusted Connections 2023 The workplace collaboration index for high-trust organisations
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